Radical Imam Killed in Dearborn Raid
US News | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:10:55 am PDT
This is the Associated Press video report on an FBI raid in the Detroit area that resulted in a shootout, in which the leader of an extremist Sunni group was killed.
UPDATE at 10/29/09 9:44:34 am:
A more detailed video from CNN: Hearing set for suspects tied to group seeking Islamic state.
UPDATE at 10/29/09 9:59:40 am:
Following the shooting, a Detroit News photographer was assaulted outside the imam’s mosque.
A group of men attacked a Detroit News photographer Wednesday evening outside a mosque where the leader had been fatally shot earlier in a shootout with federal agents.
Witnesses said the men were on the porch at the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque when Ricardo Thomas, 67, began taking photos from across the street. Several pushed him, one threw a punch at him and his camera equipment was smashed.
(Hat tip: Lawhawk.)
